We then follow up with a Mad Lib sent in by one of our listeners, Alex. How awesome was it? Well ideally you’d listen to find out, but I’ll issue a little spoiler – pretty awesome! And if you like our Magic Mad Libs, then you’ll love this new section of the website:http://themanapool.com/category/mad-libs/

We’ve got a whole mess of emails, since we haven’t managed to check them on-air in a few weeks. I mean it, we’ve got a lot! Look at the title of this episode! We are not screwing around here!

And since I played the old Beast deck on the last live episode, Mike decided I should do an Out of the Deck Box with it. It’s been a while since I talked about it, so I dug through the deck, told everyone what it does, and realized it really needs some changes. So we kicked around some ideas for updates, most of which I actually executed in the time between recording and uploading. Let me know if you guys have any other suggestions for it, I’m always willing to ignore our listeners! I mean…listen to them.

Randy has a Tenth Edition Incinerate playmat I really want to get for the contest on Tuesday. But that’s only 6, with 7 prizes. For the last one, I guess we’ll figure something out. Randy has two non-Magic ones, some kind of dragon thing and some kind of bikini angel chick thing, but I’d rather have Magic-related playmats if at all possible, you know?

Personally having the playmats signed by you guys would indeed be very Less-than-three worthy, keep doing what you do =3 Also Mike in general is not safe for work, When he was talking about Krosan tusker’s Oracle wording, the energy drink I was indulging in went, from the can to my mouth, then via my nose all over my Keyboard.

Anyway, the real reason I’m so excited is that the art featured has Liliana Vess with that Veil-thingy (which is hot) and that means that we might finally get to see Zombie-beast-summoning-Garruk (After two blocks it’s about damn time).

Holy Crap, I saw that!!! Liliana Vess is by far my favorite planeswalker, both in terms of card and flavor. Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of Innistrad before, but it doesn’t appear to be in a flavor text (Future Sight) or on a Planechase plane. And even though I have read every book, even the Harper Prism ones, I don’t remember exactly where it showed up. If anyone can help me out on that, I’d appreciate it. It wasn’t where Chandra and Gideon got stranded (Purifying Fire), was it? Or maybe I’m making it up…

When Chewie said that Robert was me with respectability, I looked up from my lunch and said “Hey!” quite loudly, startling an entire table near me. Awesome.

Chewie’s beast deck looks fun, but could definitely use some improvements from the new sets.

And as for Innistrad, I suspect it’s a new world, since the plane where Gideon and Chandra visited got its “Curse of Darkness” dispelled when the leader got removed. I suspect it’s a different plane, perhaps Lilliana’s home base.

Holy Crap, I didn’t even realize that was Liliana! What with all her lack-of-facial-tattoos (-slash-scarring-from-black-mana)!
But what has me most excited about Innistrad isn’t the cool gothic horror theme (not seen since Homelands, yo!), but rather a little name second from the top in the list of designers…

“Richard Garfield”

Ah, Jaym! The last set Phelddagrif designed was Ravnica, and we all know how that turned out!
I’m much more excited about this than I am about Action, or than I was about Scars in general. (Also, how odd is it that we know the name of the next large set, before we know the name of the small set before it?)

I really like Beasts. I have tried Garruk’s Packleader in a similar deck and found it WAY too slow and changed to Wirewood Savage who has more than pulled her weight. I would also prefer to run Overwhleming Stampede over Master of Warcraft.

Chewie’s gonna be on the Avant-Card Show? I was wondering what it would take for me to listen to their next episode after Debby broke my brain while I was listening to the last one. I guess now I know.